Shantavira is a quiet hero of the Order, working for decades on editing Bhante’s books and seminars, and he is also our longest serving compiler of Shabda.

To mark the 50th anniversary of Shabda, Satyalila interviewed him, in the style of the “50 Years 50 Voices” interviews.

LISTEN TO THE INTERVIEW HERE

Find out, for example, how he helped out with Shabda as a mitra, how he learnt to restore stained glass windows, the detailed work...

In this episode of the Buddhist Voices podcast, we delve into the life of Dharmachari Jyotipala. Ordained into the Triratna Buddhist Order in the late 1970s, Jyotipala’s spiritual journey has taken in many different contexts within the Order, including a spell living in India wearing formal Buddhist robes. However, his spiritual life started much earlier than that. Raised a catholic he became inspired by Thomas Merton and joined a then new monastery in Utah, ‘Our Lady of the Holy Trinity’,...